Wooo! I know everything! lol

[rigel6669]

Human knowledge is limited because we are limited.

And time will not resolve all the human limitations.

[VigilVirus]

Human knowledge is limited because we are limited.

And time will not resolve all the human limitations.

You really have nothing to back up that statement, because you don't know what will happen in the future.

[rogue1896]

well i think that that kind of arrogance will eventually lead to the downfall of mankind. we'll think we know everything and then b/c of what we think to be fact, something will happen for the worse. it's never a sound idea to state that you know everything b/c chances are you will never know everything. you may know a lot, but you can never know everything. like you said vigil, a while ago people did think the world was flat, they may have looked at the smartest person in the world at that time and said, 'He must know everything.' he obviously didn't know everything b/c, as i hope you all know, the world is not flat. it's round.

for example, something that may happen in the future. now this is jus theoretical. a small asteroid may hit some desolate part of the world or something. and lets just say it has some kind of metal we haven't seen yet. we'll analyze according to our technology and what we know so far. we'll take the results as fact and try to do something with this metal to benefit mankind. and something might happen to eradicate most of the world's population.

i know it's all theoretical and i have nothing to back up any of it so you can refute whatever the hell you want, but that's how i feel. Having too much knowledge is a danger.

[rigel6669]

you don't know what will happen in the future

Like all creatures the human race will cease to exist, it is only a question of time

[VigilVirus]

That's obvious, but you don't know what will happen before that.

[TMA_1]

well from what my professors said, books are more credable because you have to publish them, they have to be acclaimed by other professors or readers and grow a certain respect for the book. Internet is very unpredictable. You dont have to have a respectable website, frankly anybody with money could make a good looking website with complete crap in it. There are no standards. Also the student or person who is basing info off a website might use a geocities or yahoo based website that they make for free and is completely baseless. So many variables. It is just how I learned. Oh and dont be so upset skywalker just because you nver got the DE. ;) lol

And no... No human can know all. Geesh dumb.lol

[VigilVirus]

Hehe, how do you know that no human can know everything?

[rigel6669]

Vigil answer me the following question: how much storage capacity ( GB ) would be required to know everything?

[Acriku]

Knowing everything would require infinite space, because change happens to everything, and knowing every change that happens is required to know everything, and thus would be impossible.

[VigilVirus]

Well, there is in theory a being that knows everything - God. What if God was in fact human?

[Acriku]

Then everytime he would look in the mirror, he would die. Just like Sir Gallahad ;)

[rigel6669]

What if God was in fact human?

Than he would have to live with the human limitations, like the limited storage capacity of the human brain.

And as a human he would not know all

[Acriku]

No, what if the creator, God, was human, but did not have the attributes we put on him?

[IxianMace]

Then I guess that he would not properly classify as 'human'.

[SurlyPIG]

Pretty much every irrefutable scientific organization has a web site these days. If you seriously can't find any sites that your profs don't think are reputable, then you clearly don't know how to utilize the internet properly.

Now why would I walk 10 minutes, take a 20 minute bus, and walk another 10 minutes (and repeat), to get to a library and look up something in, say, Encyclopedia Britannica, when I can stay at home and get the same stuff, faster (no searching through indexes, wasting time copying notes) on the internet at Encyclopedia Britannica's Web Site?

But yes, there is some total garbage out there. I did this mythology assignment once on the sasquatch/yeti phenomenon and came across a site that gave me a solid half hour of hilarity. It said that the Sasquatch (aka bigfoot) walks everywhere but he is invisible, and that when he appears he is actually make of sever smaller animals called littlefeet that telepathically communitcated with each other to manipulate mankind. As I read it I could not stop laughing. It was hilarious. It sounded like it was written by an X files writer on weed. It was, quite possibly, the funniest thing I've ever heard that the writers actually believed.

[TMA_1]

of course there is good information, but that doesnt make the internet reputable.lol I mean osama bin laden has some good ideas but I dont like the guy at all.

[sneezer3]

What if God was in fact human?

Than he would have to live with the human limitations, like the limited storage capacity of the human brain.

And as a human he would not know all

You slightly have a point.

And yes God did come to earth has a form of a man 1 John 14 "And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us"

For a much more in depth then i could go see "The Word Became Flesh"

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0059/0059_01.asp

Now your right. But God crated the universe. Now if he could do that then he most certinly could come to earth in the form of a humen with inf Knowlege. Now if he could walk on water and crate the universe i'd say he could come to earth with inf Knowlege still.

Then I guess that he would not properly classify as 'human'.

You got that right. He was takeing the form of a humen being. He even was the one that made humens out of dirt/sand. :)

EDIT Woah. close one i thought i was viewing page 1 :-[ :o

[TMA_1]

well since the topic completely changed and there is never a way to save that kind of thing, Ill go along with the new topic and put in my two bits, well... one and a half.lol Acriku is right. We would have to have an accessability to contain infinite amount of information in our brains in able to know everything. Then we would need an eternal amount of time to learn these things. we could never therefore by logic know everything. And sneezer, he appeared as a human at times (called a theophany) so as to let humans better understand God. God had to basically talk to us in "child language" I guess you could say. We cannot understand God unless he came to us. If God was some entity that just created everything and left it all to work out itself, than we would have no idea on how to understand the infinity and eternity of God. We can only know the top water of the well. Not the depth of it.

[sneezer3]

well since the topic completely changed and there is never a way to save that kind of thing, Ill go along with the new topic and put in my two bits, well... one and a half.lol Acriku is right. We would have to have an accessability to contain infinite amount of information in our brains in able to know everything. Then we would need an eternal amount of time to learn these things. we could never therefore by logic know everything. And sneezer, he appeared as a human at times (called a theophany) so as to let humans better understand God. God had to basically talk to us in "child language" I guess you could say. We cannot understand God unless he came to us. If God was some entity that just created everything and left it all to work out itself, than we would have no idea on how to understand the infinity and eternity of God. We can only know the top water of the well. Not the depth of it.

I never said he din't.

He appeard when he came to earth to save humanety And he'll appear again soon to take us off the earth.

And this topic is preety much dead anyway so don't worry about it. you could sill post what you was going to.

[Dude_Doc]

I think you can rely on "big" internet sites such as cnn.com, nasa.gov and etc. Hell, they are the news. What if my TV dies, and the newspaper never makes it to my door, and I have the computer ready and good to go? "No, I can't trust the internet?". That's stupid. If you mean searching for information, the internet is also a good source. I mean, most sites agree for example that World War 2 took place between 1939-1945. That's a fact, and everyone should know that, I suppose. IF the site also says that Hitler's full name was indeed Adolph Hitler, then we have another fact. That he was born exactly August 29th 1889 19:23:20 p.m. can be argued, but if the site tells me that he was the dictator of Germany from 1930 until 1945, that will also be acceptable. And I think as long as the site "wants" to tell the truth of WW2, the Holocaust, the armies, the battles, viechles and weapons, then I think most people can agree on the information. You can for example draw the conclusion that neither Axis nor Allies had laser-based weapons, because at that time that technology did not exists, and many sites will indeed concur. Of course, if you are uncertain, you should look it up in a book, like encyclopedias and etc.

[TMA_1]

hmmm I wouldnt trust u.s. media as a good source. they are so damn bias.lol maybe NPR radio or BBC. They seem to be my favorites.